Benchmark Study 1

IPP 1st BENCHMARK REPORT
legal acts, policy planning documents and municipalities’ requirements. The software of the JSIM is
accessible to every municipality of Latvia.
The SRDA in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment Protection and Regional Development is
developing a territory planning information system (TIS). The TIS will provide centralized circulation of
the territorial planning documents as well as the support to the territory planning development and harmonisation.
The TIS will be accessible to every municipality in Latvia.
e-Procurement
Since June 1, 2009 the SRDA organizes and manages the Electronic Procurement System.
The Latvian Electronic Procurement System is the first e-procurement system in the Baltic States, which
provides to its users various possibilities.
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Faster procurement process – shortened time from acknowledging the need till purchase of the
good;
State and municipal institutions do not have to organize procurements – procurements are
organized unitary by ordering the goods with the help of the Electronic Procurement System;
State budget resources are saved because when several orders are combined small procurements
are offered better prices;
Transparency, openness and accessibility to information about the procurement process increases
– information about the procurements are public in the Electronic Procurement System;
The procurement provided in the directives of the European Commission is being executed in
Latvia as well as the positive examples of the EU countries.
The type of products currently proposed for buyers in the Latvian e-catalogue system and turnover:
5%
2%
3%
2% 0%
Medical products.
Computer hardware
7%
Printing equipment accessories
42%
Medical remedies
9%
Household goods
Office paper
Stationery
Photocopiers
15%
Office equipment
15%
Office furniture
Picture 8. Structure of products in e-cataloge
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